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	Term	Definition
	Scandal	A bad (legally or morally) situation involving a person of some prominence that becomes public
	Boom	Period of economic proserity
	Prosperity	Economic good times
	Rural	Pertaining to the country
	Urban	Pertaining to the city
	Installment buying	Purchasing an item by paying a little now and the rest in monthly payments
	Buying on margin	Purching stock with a little money down with the promise of paying the balance at sometime in the future
	Prohibition	Period of time when alcohol was illegal in America due to the 18th Amendment
	Bootleggers	Smugglers of illegal alcohol during the Prohibition era
	Repeal	To revoke (take back or cancel) a previously passed law
	Suffrage	The right to vote
	Talkies	Movies with sound
	Fads	Items or activities that are very popular for a short time
	Flappers	Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion
	Radicals	People that believe in ideas that are far from the norm
	Anarchists	People that do not believe in organized government
	Reds	Communists
	Fundamentalism	Conservative beliefs in the Bible and that it should be literally believed and applied
	Ku Klux Klan	Radical organization who's members disliked non WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants)

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Terms	19
Creator	JClay
Created	February 2, 2007
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Tags	unitedstates, history
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A list of common vocabulary terms as they pertain to the study of the 1920s by Junior High students.

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